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The tech community is mourning the loss of Cleve Moler, co-founder of MathWorks and creator of MATLAB, who passed away on May twentieth, two thousand twenty six. Moler's work gave engineers, scientists, and researchers a common language for numerical computing, and its influence on modern software development is genuinely difficult to overstate.
Turning to a story with far darker implications, new reporting offers an exclusive look at how Israeli intelligence reportedly transformed Hezbollah operatives' pagers into explosive devices. The operation raises profound questions about supply chain vulnerability and the weaponization of everyday consumer hardware — a threat model that security researchers have long warned about but rarely seen executed at this scale.
And SpaceX is pushing back its next Starship launch, just one day after the company announced plans for what could be a record-breaking stock market debut. The timing is awkward, to say the least — investors eyeing that IPO will now be watching closely to see whether the delay reflects a routine technical hold or something more significant about the program's readiness.
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